The mother-of-three admitted that she doesn’t have a “balance” perfectly figured out yet but is “going to try to shield” her kids from her dating life.
“But also, a part of me says, ‘Look, this is Mommy’s life.’ … I’m not going to have just a revolving door and make that a priority, my number one priority in my life,” she continued. “I feel like to hide it from my children is hiding a part of what they are experiencing, even peripherally, as part of their reality. I don’t want to do that either.”
“I’ve started telling my daughter I’m going on dates when I go out with my girlfriends too, so that she doesn’t think of going on a date is just I’m leaving her for a boy,” she told Us Weekly. “I want her to think I’m just going out at night with a friend.”
King then shared the difference the dating scene is between Los Angeles and St. Louis. “It’s a little bleaker,” she joked. “The men overall are not quite as interesting, in my opinion, but there’s definitely upsides. They are more, I would say, true to themselves, more family-oriented. There’s definitely pros and cons, which is all the reasons I love St. Louis and all the reasons I hate St. Louis, and vice-versa with L.A. I need to find that guy who’s the perfect mix of the St. Louis values with the L.A. attitude.”
In May, King began dating Schauf after the two connected via a dating app amid her messy divorce from Jim Edmonds. However, the pair called it quits in November. The two revealed that they ended things on good terms.
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